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How to pass the args, when use the option --external-downloader. for example use axel. #10429

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magj2006 opened this issue Aug 24, 2016 · 5 comments
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@magj2006 magj2006 commented Aug 24, 2016

How to pass the args, when use the option --external-downloader.
It's error, when I use --external-downloader axel --external-downloader-args '-n 10'

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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Aug 24, 2016

Post the full output of your command.

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@magj2006 magj2006 commented Aug 25, 2016

youtube-dl -citk --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 78 -f webm --external-downloader axel --external-downloader-args '-n 10' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=........

youtube-dl -citk --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 78 -f webm --external-downloader axel --external-downloader-args [-n 10] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=........

these two methods are error.

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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Aug 25, 2016

Axel uses HTTP even if fed with HTTPS URLs, and YouTube now reject all non-HTTP URLs. Please forward this bug to the Axel team.

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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Aug 25, 2016

FWIW, this fork works for me: https://github.com/eribertomota/axel. Seems the official Axel has been dead and there's no updates since 6 years ago.

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@magj2006 magj2006 commented Sep 21, 2016

@yan12125 Thank you very much.

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